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PlayStation Store Update: Bloody smash edition

The PlayStation Store gets a fairly hefty update this week, including Smash …

This week's PlayStation Store update features a pair of downloadable games, a pair of demos, and a whole heap of add-on content. Leading the way this week is Smash Cars, a downloadable RC car racing game with a heavy emphasis on tricks and stunts, available for $14.99.

Also available to download is Bloody Roar, a fighting game from 1997 where the fighters can transform into powerful beasts during battle, which will runs players $5.99 and Warriors Orichi on the PSP for $14.99. As for demos, players can get a taste of both the action game Mini Ninjas and combat flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey.

And then there's the add-on content, of which there is quite a bit. Available this week: Andy Dick joins the cast of Pain for $1.99; Zen Pinball gets a Street Fighter II themed table for $2.49; BlazBlue gets a host of new content packs ranging in price from $0.99-$4.99; and Cross Edge gets even more new content packs for $1.99 each.

As for music games, Guitar Hero: World Tour gets one lone song in Steve Ouimette's "Dueling Banjos" ($1.99). Rock Band Unplugged gets "Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar and "A Favor House Atlantic" Coheed and Cambria ($1.99 each). And Rock Band for consoles gets a bunch of great new tracks ($1.99 each), including:

“I’ll Stick Around”—Foo Fighters

“Lonely As You”—Foo Fighters

“All My Life”—Foo Fighters

“There’s No Other Way”—Blur

“No Rain”—Blind Melon

“Inside Out”—Eve 6

“I’m Shipping up to Boston”—Dropkick Murphy

“I Predict a Riot”—Kaiser Chiefs

There's also some free songs from Marvel vs Capcom 2 and a whole host of trailers, themes, and wallpapers, that round out this week's PlayStation Store update.